Civic eState

The design principles carved by the Civic eState project represent a tool to design urban justice and democracy and thereby also measure the implementation of some of the EU Urban Agenda priority themes, such as “Urban poverty”, in relation to which the Agenda states:
“Urban poverty refers to issues related to structural concentration of poverty in deprived neighbourhoods and solutions that need to be designed and applied with integrated approach: 1)Place-based solutions; 2) People-based solutions”;
or the priority theme “Housing” in relation to which the agenda states:
“The focus will be on public affordable housing, state aid rules and general housing policy”;
the priority theme “Climate Adaptation” in relation to which the Agenda states:
“anticipate the adverse effects of climate change and take appropriate action to prevent or minimise the damage it can cause to Urban Areas. The focus will be on: vulnerability assessments, climate resilience and risk management”.
Finally, it can also support the implementation of the Agenda’s provisions, such as p. 52, where the Ministers agree “to recognise the potential of civil society to co-create innovative solutions to urban challenges, which can contribute to public policy making at all levels of government and strengthen democracy in the EU”.
The design principles carved by the Civic eState project represent a tool to design urban justice and democracy and thereby also measure the implementation of some of the New Urban Agenda goals, such as goals 13 and 19, or the Sustainable Development goals 16 and 17, in particular the sub-goals 16.7, 17.17 and 17.19.